The table below summarizes the Director's Discretionary Target proposal for the entirety of the TESS mission. Included are DDT number, name of the DDT principal investigator, the subject of the DDT, the cadence requested (20s or 2m), and the number of targets. A link to the DDT candidate target list is provided for each DDT. Note that all targets observed at 20s cadence are also observed at 2m cadence.
If there are questions or comments, please contact Joel Villasenor (jsvilla@space.mit.edu) or Roland Vanderspek (roland@space.mit.edu).
| DDT # | PI | Subject | Cadence | No. Targets | CTL |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | Zach Berta-Thompson | New Young Moving Group Members from Gaia DR2 | 2m | 1865 | DDT001 |
| 002 | Lisa Kaltenegger | Stars where TESS can probe 1AU equivalent distance | 2m | 1811 | DDT002 |
| 003 | Ian Crossfield | K2 Planet Candidates | 2m | 60 | DDT003 |
| 004 | Jessie Christiansen | Lowest-Metallicity TESS Targets | 2m | 3361 | DDT004 |
| 005 | Christopher Burke | Discovered TOIs | 2m | 20 | DDT005 |
| 006 | JJ Hermes | New White Dwarfs from Gaia | 2m | 239 | DDT006 |
| 007 | Allison Youngblood | Searching for planets around high velocity stars to enable UV Transmission Spectroscopy | 2m | 113 | DDT007 |
| 008 | Padi Boyd | Solar Siblings in Sectors 12 and 13 | 2m | 2 | DDT008 |
| 009 | Colin Littlefield | TESS observations of erratic accretion onto the magnetized white dwarf in V496 UMa | 2m | 1 | DDT009 |
| 010 | Nobu Kawai | X-ray sources observed by MAXI | 2m | 90 | DDT010 |
| 011 | Isaac Lopez | Candidate Pulsating Low-Mass White Dwarfs from Gaia DR2 | 2m | 40 | DDT011 |
| 012 | Avi Shporer | Known Transiting Planets | 2m | 39 | DDT012 |
| 013 | Joshua Pepper | Single-transit candidates for Year 2 | 2m | 25 | DDT013 |
| 014 | James Davenport | QX Cas | 2m | 1 | DDT014 |
| 015 | Jari Kajava | Quasi-periodic eruptions from an active galactic nucleus | 2m | 1 | DDT015 |
| 016 | Timothy Bedding | High-frequency Delta-Scuti Stars | 2m | 373 | DDT016 |
| 017 | Nicolas Crouzet | Characterizing the XO-7 System | 2m | 1 | DDT017 |
| 018 | Andrew Vanderburg | TIC 207425167, a system with a long-period Jupiter with only a single transit | 2m | 1 | DDT018 |
| 019 | Derek Buzesi | B Star Asteroseismology | 2m | 27 | DDT019 |
| 020 | Veselin Kostov | Stellar Multiples from TESS | 2m | 32 | DDT020 |
| 021 | Don Kurtz | Quiet A stars | 20s | 53 | DDT021 |
| 022 | Vichi Antoci | High-frequency A-F pulsators | 20s | 2412 | DDT022 |
| 023 | Andrew Vanderburg | Observations of New, High-Priority White Dwarfs with Circumstellar Dust | 2m | 19 | DDT023 |
| 024 | Diana Dragomir | TESS Single Transit Planet Candidate (TSTPC) | 2m | 100 | DDT024 |
| 025 | Isaac Lopez | Candidate Pulsating Low-Mass White Dwarfs from Gaia DR2 | 2m | 26 | DDT025 |
| 026 | David Wilson | Measuring the spin period of a rare magnetic white dwarf | 2m | 1 | DDT026 |
| 027 | Veselin Kostov | Stellar Multiples and Circumbinary Planets from TESS | 2m | 9 | DDT027 |
| 028 | Luke Bouma | Complex Modulation of Rapidly Rotating Young M Dwarfs | 2m | 47 | DDT028 |
| 029 | Luke Bouma | Complex Modulation of Rapidly Rotating Young M Dwarfs | 20s | 10 | DDT029 |
| 030 | Krzysztof Helminiak | Confirming a circumbinary planet with eclipse timing variations | 20s | 1 | DDT030 |
| 031 | Jamie Tayar | Digging Deep Into Massive Star Variability | 20s | 1 | DDT031 |
| 032 | Rasmus Handberg | Asteroseismology of Solar-type stars, High-Frequency A-F Pulsators, and White Dwarfs | 20s | 1397 | DDT032 |
| 033 | Sam Grunblatt | Hot Jupiters Around Evolved Stars | 2m | 25 | DDT033 |
| 034 | Robert Aloisi/Andrew Vanderburg | White Dwarf Exoplanets Identified in TESS FFI Images | 2m | 39 | DDT034 |
| 035 | Melinda Soares-Furtado | Asteroseismic Investigation of Pulsating Blue Stragglers in NGC 6819 | 2m | 11 | DDT035 |
| 036 | Trevor David | Weighing Newborn Planets in the V1298 Tau System | 2m | 1 | DDT036 |
| 037 | Belinda Nicholson | Searching for transits of Year 2 single transit planet candidates | 2m | 123 | DDT037 |
| 038 | Travis Metcalfe | Asteroseismology of Spectropolarimetric Benchmark Stars | 20s | 3 | DDT038 |
| 039 | Michelle Kunimoto | M Dwarf Exoplanets | 2m | 738 | DDT039 |
| 040 | Venkatessh Ramakrishnan | TESS monitoring of quasar jets with standing shocks | 2m | 6 | DDT040 |
| 041 | Huber | A Survey of Oscillations and Granulation in Evolved Solar-Type Stars | 2m | 14838 | DDT041 |
| 042 | Michelle Kunimoto | White Dwarf Exoplanets | 2m | 73 | DDT042 |
| 043 | Michelle Kunimoto | White Dwarf Exoplanets | 20s | 10 | DDT043 |
| 044 | Elyse Incha | Single-transit Planet Candidates from K2 Campaign 19E | 2m | 3 | DDT044 |
| 045 | Michelle Kunimoto | Faint Star TOIs | 2m | 390 | DDT045 |
| 046 | Rahul Jayaraman | A Low-Temperature sdBV star in a Long-Period Binary | 20s | 1 | DDT046 |
| 047 | Michelle Kunimoto | M Dwarf Exoplanets | 2m | 2031 | DDT047 |
| 048 | Michelle Kunimoto | White Dwarf Exoplanets | 2m | 412 | DDT048 |
| 049 | Michelle Kunimoto | White Dwarf Exoplanets | 20s | 50 | DDT049 |
| 050 | Melinda Soares-Furtado | Asteroseismic Investigation of a Pulsating Blue Straggler in Open Cluster M67 | 2m | 1 | DDT050 |
| 051 | Krista Lynne Smith | A NICER-TESS Synergistic Look at QPOs in AGN | 2m | 1 | DDT051 |
| 052 | Alexis M. S. Smith | A unique chance to observe the transit of a planet in a 522-d orbit | 2m | 1 | DDT052 |
| 053 | Rahul Jayaraman | OBA Stars with TESS | 20s | 3 | DDT053 |
| 054 | Nora Eisner | Asteroseismic investigation of an evolved, bright planetary system | 20s | 1 | DDT054 |
| 055 | Maria Pia Di Mauro | The characterization of the host star GJ504 | 20s | 1 | DDT055 |
| 056 | Mia Sloth Lundkvist | Asteroseismic observations of the Methuselah star | 20s | 1 | DDT056 |
| 057 | Maximilian N. Günther | Young Stellar Merger Remnant TYC 2597-735-1 | 20s | 4 | DDT057 |
| 058 | Kevin Burdge | Eclipsing binary ZTF J1539+5027 | 20s | 1 | DDT058 |
| 059 | Daniella Gagliuffi | A Search for Asteroseismic Oscillations in 14 Her | 20s | 1 | DDT059 |
| 060 | Rahul Jayaraman | Tidally Tilted Pulsators in Cycle 4 | 2m | 3 | DDT060 |
| 061 | Nestor Espinoza | Obtaining the best precision out of HAT-P-14b transit observations | 20s | 1 | DDT061 |
| 062 | Eder Martioli | TESS planet candidates orbiting thick-disk stars | 2m | 1 | DDT062 |
| 063 | Daniel Huber | JWST Exoplanet Host Stars | 20s | 41 | DDT063 |
| 064 | Roland Vanderspek | CRM data collection | 20s | 64 | DDT064 |
| 065 | Michelle Kunimoto | New TOIs from Nearby Planet Candidates | 2m | 5 | DDT065 |
| 066 | Donald Kurtz et al. | Whatever happened to HD60435? | 20s | 1 | DDT066 |
| 067 | Mary Anne Limbach & Andrew Vanderburg | Ages from Asteroseismology for the Habitable Worlds Observatory Targets using 20-second-Cadence TESS Data | 20s | 58 | DDT067 |
| 068 | Mikkel N. Lund | Asteroseismology of Hyades and Preasepe Giants | 20s | 8 | DDT068 |
| 069 | Agnes Kospal | Reverberation in DR Tau | 20s | 1 | DDT069 |
| 070 | Jeremy Schnittman | triple eclipsing system | 20s | 8 | DDT070 |
| 071 | Mikkel N. Lund | Asteroseismology of bright stars | 20s | 20 | DDT071 |
| 072 | Mia Sloth Lundkvist | Granulation in M-dwarfs | 20s | 2 | DDT072 |
Last updated: Thu 25 Apr 2024 12:13:20 AM EDT